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Chapter 171: You Should Smile More — It's Devastating

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last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-05-01 14:35:32

Robert Hart is "discharged" the next morning.

He walks out of Mercy General in his own clothes, carrying his own coat, waving off the nurse who offers a wheelchair with the particular impatience of a man who has decided the performance is over and would like his dignity back. I watch from the car and think about what Liam told me on the drive home — they do some version of this every year — and feel the complicated mixture of exasperation and genuine tenderness tha

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